How confident are you in avoiding a postpartum flare up? On a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being most confident)
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Hi@Sharna !! Where are you in your maternal journey now?? Here for you!
@Mikayla Wright | MMH hey! I’m 30+5! Thank you! Xx
I have 2 children already (early pregnant with my third) and didn’t have a flare up postpartum with either so I’m feeling positive about when this baby is born. It’s normally about a year postpartum I start feeling ill again
I came across this group by search. I have rheumatoid arthritis before pregnancy and I was able to go without medication during pregnancy (as the high cortisol tuned down my inflammation). But 1 week after delivery, I started to have very very bad flare up and I was not able to control it unless I took high dose steroids. As I was breastfeeding I couldn’t start my regular medication (which is teratogenic and contradicts with breastfeeding. I guess the pro-breastfeeding propaganda bewitched me somehow and I didn’t want to give up breastfeeding regardless the miserableness I had to endure everyday. Eventually I stopped breastfeeding and started my medication at around 4 month postpartum. But those first 4 months was absolutely nightmare, mainly due to the flare up. I just want to vent here and see if any other mama has experienced something similar. Post-part I’m with complications is very hard because it’s not just myself I had to take care but also another helpless newborn.
-100 😅 i truly believe I am going to be hit like a tonne of bricks! I have already had a flare during pregnancy. Although overall it’s dimmed down the past 7 months, it’s also still very much there so I feel it’s gonna come back hard which worries me with a new born!